Haruo Shirane
Japanese-born literary scholar and professor of Japanese literature at Columbia University, specializing in classical and early modern Japanese poetry and prose (waka, Genji, Bashō, haiku); author of several influential books on Japanese literature and culture.
Books
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1. The Bridge Of Dreams
A Poetics of The Tale of Genji
A close literary study that reads a classical Japanese narrative through the aesthetics and mechanics of court poetry, showing how seasonal images, linked-verse exchanges, and dreamlike moments knit episodes and emotions together into a continuous poetic consciousness. It traces the intertextual networks of waka and prose, argues that poetic diction and dream imagery function as structural bridges between scenes and characters, and illuminates the cultural ideas about feeling, memory, and narration that underlie the work’s enduring power.
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